Letters to the editor

Published: August 9, 2004 12:00AM

Has president failed? Answer coming Nov. 2
Editor:
My letter is in response to a letter on Aug. 2 in which the writer states President Bush has not failed and that Kerry and Edwards are not presidential people.
I have some questions for the writer to answer. Who was president when the terrorists struck in New York and Washington? What intelligence that was available to him was ignored according to all reports I've read.
How can you or I declare someone to be a Christian when that decision is a contract between a person and his Lord! Matthew 7:1 states, "Judge not that ye be not judged."
Today's newspaper stated the supply line through Turkey has been shut down because of terrorists threats to kill all Turks who help the U.S. in Iraq. Who is president?
Who declared war on Iraq on false pretenses that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction? None have ever been found.
As to the marriage act that Kerry and Edwards failed to vote on, just maybe they were wise, since no government can place laws in effect to legislate morality. Men and women will do as they please regardless of law! Romans 3:23: "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." (Adam and Ever in the garden.)
While I agree that marriage should be one man and one woman and disagree with homosexual or lesbian marriages, law will not stop the latter.
What gives anyone the right to tell people to vote for Bush and condemn people who will vote for Kerry?
Why has President Bush given tax breaks to the rich at the expense of the poor (case in point, less money for the social needs of the poor)? I for one didn't receive any of Bush's giveaway money. I have to live on a limited income with everything higher priced.
Oh, another thing, Bush declared the war in Iraq over on April 1. There should be peace if war is over, instead, Americans are dying daily in Iraq, over 800 since April 1.
Has President Bush failed?
Well, each one of us will have the right to answer that question as we go to the polls to vote.
Elmer G. Croft
Rittman